Chicago Overturns Foie Gras Ban...
… with a city council vote of 37-6. woooooo!
put this one in the win column for the fighting phils!
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GO CHICAGO!! I wonder if it’s the same city council and, if so, what caused them to so drastically change their minds?
Wahoo! Can’t… wait… for… yellow… party… EVE!
Foie is more pink/brown, wouldn’t you say?
Hahahaha, yeah yeah… EVE!
It’s Chicago. This just means that they’ll allow it because they’re working on a way to tax it heavily. Within six months you’ll need to purchase a hefty-fee permit to serve the stuff.
This is another one of those things that I get conflicted on. On one hand banning foods is stupid, especially for a reason such as it being cruel, especially given the way most animal based food is aquired. So I’m definitely in the camp of being in favor of not having stupid laws that ban food. However, I equate the whole uproar over this with Anthony Bourdain who has become a caricature at this point and whose righteous indignation at every turn about EVERYTHING makes him the Bill O’Reilly of the culinary world. We get it. You’re a rebel. You can’t be contained. You eat crazy stuff. Can we move on and have you show me how to actually cook something rather than just ranting about who sucks and who is telling you what you can and can’t eat?
I’d love to see vegans/vegetarians invent “faux gras”.
Kevin said:This is another one of those things that I get conflicted on. On one hand banning foods is stupid, especially for a reason such as it being cruel, especially given the way most animal based food is aquired. So I’m definitely in the camp of being in favor of not having stupid laws that ban food. However, I equate the whole uproar over this with Anthony Bourdain who has become a caricature at this point and whose righteous indignation at every turn about EVERYTHING makes him the Bill O’Reilly of the culinary world. We get it. You’re a rebel. You can’t be contained. You eat crazy stuff. Can we move on and have you show me how to actually cook something rather than just ranting about who sucks and who is telling you what you can and can’t eat?
I would think the righteous indignation on the other side of the argument would have you far more annoyed, especially considering it’s lies and bullshit.
Yeah, but then there’s the fact that whether or not people have the opportunity to pay a lot of money to eat force fed goose liver in a particular city rather than having to drive outside of that city to pay a lot of money to eat force fed goose liver falls pretty far down on the list of things I have the energy to get outraged over. I mean I’m sure the stuff tastes just delicious, and I absolutely am much more firmly planted on the on the not giving a shit end of the animal rights spectrum. And if you tell me there’s some all foie gras restaurant that had to close because of this, or that someone on an all foie gras diet had no way to travel to Dekalb to get their foie gras then maybe I can muster a little anger or something. But on the scale of slippery slopes this one really isn’t making the cut. Fight the good fight, and more power to anyone involved though.
John said:
I would think the righteous indignation on the other side of the argument would have you far more annoyed, especially considering it’s lies and bullshit.
Honestly, I don’t care. The birds had it coming.
Look at that contraption!
Yeah, that’s one of a set of photos that came out of a foie famr in canada that was shut down for ethical violations. Years and years ago. And despite the fact that most foie farms are 500x more humane than the tyson chicken plan down rt 95, these same photos keep popping back up. It’s nuts.
What kills me, what really pisses me off, is that there are very real and very awful inhumane things being done in the food industry every day. So why pick on foie gras, a minority commodity that, at the very least, gives the geese/ducks long and free range lives?
I’ll get behind a foie ban once we’ve outlawed industrial chicken, the US beef industry, and veal. Until then, it’s pretty low on the animal cruelty totem pole.
What is the 500X more ethical way to over feed a bird then harvest it’s swollen liver?
Again, I could care less. I’m all for well fed birds.
Patrick, I’m starting to think you care a lot.
The liver enlargement is a natural process that happens to ducks during migration. Because of this, many foie farms will only overfeed “seasonally” or when the duck’s body is primed for migration. They’ll also use rubber tubes instead of metal ones to prevent any sort of tracheal scratching.
The overfeeding causes no pain if it’s done properly and ducks have no gag reflex. Their necks are elasticy to allow them to swallow food larger their then stomach in nature while fattening for migration.
The foie pictures you see of ducks with corn meal spewing out of their mouths show a much greater evil: industrialized meat. Keep it small and local and you’ll keep it all quite humane.
Why the hell do you know so much about duck liver?
It’s official: Patrick cares.
A bit cause I know a lot about birds, a bit cause I really like food, and a bit cause I love to argue with people about things and it helps to know the facts on stuff before you argue.
John said:The foie pictures you see of ducks with corn meal spewing out of their mouths show a much greater evil: industrialized meat. Keep it small and local and you’ll keep it all quite humane.
yep!
Paris said:It’s official: Patrick cares.
No really i don’t. I’m the guy in the pictures.
hahahhahaha! Pat made me lol.
I can’t believe this ever happened. Now it’s happening in California. So stupid
Are you serious? More people need to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvrgD0mAFoU
I’m glad this thread was kicked. Since the time that I posted my skeptical comments in it I have had a lot of foie gras prepared a lot of different ways and each and every one has been phenomenal. Hell, at this point you could tell me it’s cooked using the salty tears of orphans to make the delicious fattened goose liver even more tasty and I’d still say “Yes, please.”